Card-case.



0. W. TOLLSTAM.

CARD CASE.

APPLICATION rILEp 1030.17, 1910.

1,079,960. Patented Dad. 2, 1913.

C MBIA PLANOGRAPH 60.,WASHINGTON n c UNITED STATES] PATENT A oscAn WILLIAM ToLLsTAM, or CHICAGO, ILtInoIs, ASSIGNOR To JAMES 1v. MURRAY,

on CHICAGO, ILLINOIS...

CARD-CASE;

Specification of Letters Patent. v Patented D60. 2, 1913.

Application filed December 17; 1910. Serial No. 597,838.

To all whom it may concern: 1

I Be it known that I, OSCAR W. ToLnsTAM a citizen of the United States, residing :at'

Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a' new and useful Improvement in Card-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to card cases in which the unconnected cards registering-in a file or pack are held by adjustable frictional devices which press their opposite edges and which permit the removal of the cards in succession without displacement of succeeding cards.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing cardsheld in place in an opened case, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the card holding devices in place on a card supporting member of the case, Fig. 3- shows the holding devices in elevation looking from the back, or hinge end, of the case. Fig. 4: is a sectional view, the line of section being indicated at 44, Fig. 3, Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the case, showingthe means for securing. the metal parts to the'card supporting member of the case, Fig. 6 is a fragmentary section on the line 4:-4, Fig. 3, the portion between the cutting plane being removed.

The body of the case is composed of a double bed plate or cover member A, a cover member B, and a connecting member B, having along opposite sides at C, D, hinge-like connection with A and, B, the

three members usually being of leather. j

The upper part of the member A is a leather sheet F marginally connected to the lower part to form a pocket, E, to which access is had by swinging the members B, B back ward about the aXis C.

Cards are held upon the bed plate A by a two-part metal clamp device consisting of oppositely facing jaws P and Q, each U-shaped in cross section, the lower web T of the jaw P being fixed to the leather plate F near one of its lateral margins by a metal clip G having points Z which pass through the web T into permanent engagement with the plate F. The corresponding web, U, of the other jaw is secured'in a similar way, but here the points Z pass through a slot V inthe web while portions Y extend over the metalat'the sides of the slot, so that this j aw'may slide toward and from the medial line of the case. Within the jaws, that is between their webs T and U and parallel webs preferably vertically ribbed soft rubber blocks W provided with passages X to secure ready yielding through a greater distance, The jaw Q, has at its end nearest the member B an inwardly extending, 1 integrally formed channel member K, U-shaped in cross section with its upper and lower webs approximately in the planes of the webs U and S respectively, andis provided near its end with a rigid central stud L,

The other -jaw is provided with a similar member Htelescoping with or sliding. on the memberK and provided with a central slot M, to receive the stud L. Upon the stud L is revolubly mounted a broad clampmg spring N havingprojections O whichrest upon the member H on each side of the slot when the spring is in looking position as shown in :full lines in Fig. ,3, and which pass off that member when'the spring is rotated to the position shown indotted lines.

When cards are to be placed in the case,

the spring is turned to unlocking position, the cards are put inplace between thejaws, as in Fig. 1, the movable jaw is then pressed inwarduntilthe rubber is somewhat compressed, and while the jaws are so held the spring isforcedydown to locking position It and S is placed elastic material,=

binding the members H, K'firmly together 7 and preventing the sliding jaw from mow .ingi outward. The cards are now heldbby? the rubber, as shown, each being held upon each edge by each pair of ribs. The cards .may be removed singly in succession by an endwise pull, usually after the outer end-is slightly raised so that it may be grasped.

Obviously slightly raising the card allows the first pair of ribs to grasp the card below more securely-and' 'as soon as the end of the withdrawing card leaves eaclr pair'of ribs, those ribs press: inward over thenext cards edges and no card ever withdraws or. disvplacesthe next card, or-is injured marginally ,and each, as withdrawn, has its proper,perfectly plane form; It is also to benoted that the upper webs or lips of the jaws prevent the cards. from beinglifted 35 companion, and means for locking the movbodily, in mass or otherwise, from their normal clamped position.

Without ad ustability of the jaws, the devicev would be of comparatively little value,

since for satisfactory operation the distance between them must correspond somewhat accuratelywith the width of the cards to be held so that each card may receive the proper pressure from the elastic material, which would not be the case were the jaws tion to act at opposite points upon the edges of-superposed cards resting upon the plate and adapted to apply edgewise pressure independently to each card, and means for fixing the jaws at'var'ious distances apart.

2. In card holding devices, the combination with a plane bed member, of jaws secured to said member near one end-thereof, adapted to hold individually by acting against their lateral edges cards superposed upon said member, and provided with overhanging webs to prevent disengagement of the cards by movement perpendicular to the bed member, and means for adjustably fixing the distance between the jaws.

3. The combination with the bed plate, of a jaw fixed to the plate near its lateral margin, a second coacting jaw' secured to the plate near the opposlte margin to move, parallel to the bed, toward and from its able jaw in any of its positions; each of said jaws being provided with independently yielding face ribs transverse with respect to the edges of cards parallel to the bed and between said jaws.

' 4. The combination with abed plate of a marginal jaw fixed thereto near one end thereof and provided at its rear end with a rigid member projecting inwardly parallel to the bed, a co-acting sliding jaw, near the opposite margin of the bed, provided with a second rigid member overlapping and sliding along the first, means for at will locking said rigid members together, and rubber I blocks secured to the working faces of said "jaws respectively.

5. The combination with a bed plate, of a U-shaped marginal jawfixed to the bed plate and provided with an elastic block partially fillingv the recess in the jaw and having on its working face ribs transverse to the plane of the'bed plate, a second similar jaw mounted upon the bed to slide parallel thereto toward and from the first, and

means for locking the second jaw.

6.- A card case comprising a hinged cover and adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end, said means comprising parts which press against the edges of the cards in a direction parallel to the plane of the cards.

7. A card case comprising a hinged cover and adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end, said means comprising jaws adapted to press against the edges of the cards in the direction of the plane of the cards.

8. A card case comprising a hinged cover and adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end, said means comprising jaws adapted to press against the edges of the cards in the direction of the plane of the cards, said jaws having elastic card contacting pads therein.

9. A card holder comprising a fixed base and jaws, one of them rigidly mounted thereon, channels connecting said jaws adapted to overhang the ends of said cards and flanges on the jaws overhanging a portion of the cards adjacent one end, said jaws adapted to press upon the edges of the cards in the direction of their planes.

10. A card case comprising adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end by pressing upon the edges of the cards in the direction of their planes.

11.. A card case comprising adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end by pressing upon the edges of the cards in the direction of their planes, said means comprising jaws slidable with reference to each other.

12. A card case comprising adjustable means for frictionally holding the opposed edges of the cards adjacent one end by pressing upon the edges of the cards in the direction of their planes, said means comprising jaws slidable with reference to each other, said jaws having elastic card contacting pads therein.

13. A card case comprising a fiat base, a jaw fixed in position thereon and a jaw slidable therealong, and means for holding said jaws together to compress and hold the cards between them, the cards being located in a plane parallel with the base.

14. A card case comprising a base and means for frictionally engaging and hold- .ing the opposed edges of each of the cards adjacent one end on said base.

15. A card case comprising a fiat base, jaws thereon and slidable with respect one to the other and means for holding said jaws together to compress and hold the cards between them, the cards being located in a plane parallel with the base, and said jaws being in engagement with the opposed edges of the cards.

16. A card case comprising a pair of jaws slidable to and from one another and means for holding said jaws together to press and hold the cards between them, the cards being located in a plane parallel with the direction of movement of the jaws as they move to and from one another.

17. A card holder, comprising card holding sections operable one Within the other, and means on said sections for adhesively gripping the opposite edges of the cards.

18. A card holder, comprising a pair of sections movable longitudinally on each other, means for securing the sections in ad justed positions, and means on the said sections for adhesively gripping the opposite edges of the cards.

19. A card holder, comprising a pair of movable sections, said sections having a channel formation, means for securing the sections in adjusted positions, and'means on the inside faces of the side portions of said sections for adhesively gripping the opposite edges of the cards.

20. A card holder, comprising card receiving portions and a backing extending for- Wardly from said receiving portions, and means in said receiving portions for gripping the opposite edges of one end of the cards.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name at Chicago, Ill. on the 1st day of December 1910 in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses,

OSCAR WILLIAM TOLLSTAM. WVitnesses:

G. A. LINDQUIST, C. A. ROPER.

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